A blog about the works and worlds of HP Lovecraft and my feeble attempts to illustrate them.

Sunday, January 19, 2014

HP Lovecraft's The Lurking Fear

I originally did the sketch for this five years ago, when I was originally conceiving of an artbook of Lovecraft's works, but shelved it, both the painting and the book, till I felt I had the skill to execute them properly. Unfortunately I've thrown away the vast majority of my old sketches, so I sadly can't do a comparison between the original and the final version, which makes me sad...

Here's the painting as a cover for a Lovecraft short story collection: